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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
theguardian.com
Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
gmb.org.uk
£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital gains taxed at lower rates than wages. 2024-25: 584000 people paid £24.2bn capital gains tax (CGT) on £127.3bn gains. 45% of CGT paid by those with gains of £5m+, less than 1% of CGT payers. Align CGT rates with tax rates on wages, generate £12bn-£14bn. More if NIC charged.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South West Water pleaded guilty to sewage dumping, fined £8m, a decade after the events. Yet govt introduced more deregulation. England's water industry controlled by organisations with criminal convictions. None has licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills
South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran ‘very hard’. Distraction from Trump's economic failures, midterm blues, capitulation to China, court rebukes, tariff and press wars, self-aggrandizement, family fortunes from corruption Why does US Congress not check his abuses?
independent.co.uk
Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran - latest
The US president said the war will end ‘one way or another’
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lhoney49.bsky.social @lhoney49.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Millions of UK workers withdrawing from pension schemes to make ends meet Consequence of low wages and high cost of living forcing people into hardship choices - living now v income in retirement. They will have lower private pension in later life and state pension isn't enough even now.
bbc.co.uk
Why Gen Z are opting out of workplace pensions
A growing number of people are opting out of these schemes due to cost-of-living pressures.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
US private equity owner of Boots to sell it to a Canadian private equity firm for $9bn (£7bn). NHS prescriptions are a major money makers. Otherwise its prices are high. No UK tax levied on dividends paid by Boots to its foreign owners.
theguardian.com
Boots owner ‘closing in on sale to Canada’s Weston family for $9bn’
Deal would mark return of Canadian family to UK after it sold Selfridges department store for £4bn in 2022
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children. Some people charged up to £104 extra. Neoliberals routinely moan about regulation but are silent on customer rip-off schemes. If businesses were ethical we wouldn't need regulation.
theguardian.com
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children
Planned rule change forms part of Burnham’s bid to crack down on the ‘little charges that add up’
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dividends paid to UK citizens taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%, lower rate than wages. Dividends mostly go to the top 1%. £6bn a year raised if dividends taxed at the same rate as wages. More if NIC levied. Unlike the US, France, Germany, no UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign investors.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thousands of young people could lose key disability benefits Govt could limit the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), and further strip Motability support. Hope the govt sees sense and doesn't repeat Starmer policies. Why not end corporate welfare?
independent.co.uk
Thousands could lose key disability benefits in welfare changes
The plans risk reigniting tensions with backbench Labour MPs over welfare spending
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chinese Govt owned Syngenta to cease operations at Grangemouth, 400 jobs at risk. Previously oil refinery closed. England-based British Steel rescued. What would govt do now? UK govts oppose state ownership but let foreign govts own infrastructure. Why? Any industrial strategy?
independent.co.uk
Chemical firm to cease operations at Grangemouth site putting nearly 400 jobs at risk
The move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It still astounds me how fast the cult and their corrupt politicians will ignore and violate the Constitution in order to protect their own.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EU www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
No 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EU
Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Half Dome (or El Capitan) and the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, California, illuminated by golden sunlight or alpenglow
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Brexit was a huge loss both for the British people and for the European project as a whole. If the United Kingdom were to make such a decision, Spain would welcome it with open arms and once again embrace our friends in Britain.” - President Sánchez
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Every night this living breathing purring beanie baby steals my armchair and then when i say "okay i guess i'll go to bed then" she goes MRRRP and zooms from the armchair to go upstairs because she LOVES bedtime
Myrtle, a grey and orange cat with absurdly round green eyes, looking faux innocently up at me from the armchair
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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1st October 1970, Janis Joplin recorded her famous a cappella song "Mercedes Benz" and a lighthearted "Happy Trails" birthday greeting for John Lennon during a session in Los Angeles. These proved to be her final studio recordings before her tragic death three days later. #JanisJoplin
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Rogers wants to put a data center in your backyard because he's getting rich off of them.
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And he didn't do it alone.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He doesn’t care if he loses the election because he plans to steal it if he can. He can’t! We won’t let him.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
washingtonpost.com
The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces that the UK will be opening "safe and legal" routes for refugees. These refugees will include "Afghan women and girls fleeing persecution under the Taliban" and "Palestinians who have fled the horrors of Gaza"
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham to set up publicly-owned 'Great British Grid' on mission to fix 'broken' energy market 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Burnham plans public-owned 'Great British Grid' to fix 'broken' energy market
EXCLUSIVE: The PM will use his Labour conference speech to set out plans for greater public control of energy - as he warned firms and businesses are left shouldering the cost
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Hope comes from honesty” Prime minister Andy Burnham
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"We're ending the injustice of leasehold." Housing Secretary Angela Rayner says Labour will be capping and then scrapping ground rents for leaseholders
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Water is a symbol of what has gone wrong with Britain. A service where the shareholders never lose and the public never win' PM Andy Burnham announces plans for a law change to allow public ownership of water companies 👏
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham confirms that VAT will be removed from electricity bills starting this Thursday
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Britain has been on the wrong path for a long time." During his speech Andy Burnham pledges to "make a break with the direction of the past 40 years and put Britain on a new path, build a new economy and a new politics."
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UK economy grew by 0.5% in the three months to June 2026
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Brexit has done more harm than good." Andy Burnham says he will 'lay out options' at the next reset summit to tighten the relationship between the EU and UK
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'I'm considering everything that might help people in very difficult times' Andy Burnham tells #BBCBreakfast he is still looking at what extra support he can give people to deal with the rising cost of energy bills and fuel, but 'people wouldn't thank me for making unfunded commitments'
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'Brexit in its current form has caused more harm than good and I think around 60% of the British public now hold that view' Andy Burnham says rejoining the EU could be among options the government could examine to reshape the UK's long-term relationship with Europe
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Social Care is affordable in the UK. Just not Privatised Social Care. Currently a Social Care Worker is paid £12.60 an hour. The Council is charged £33.20 an hour. A huge amount of this is profit which goes completely untaxed. As you can see this will NEVER be affordable.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's been 9 years since Grenfell, the CPS have just been asked to consider Manslaughter charges. The killers should already be in jail, they should have been years ago. YOU would have been.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In case you don't know AI construction costs are being removed from the taxes they should pay and their power and water bills are subsidised by you. So YOU are paying for AI, and of course THEY own it.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICE have confirmed that a 58th person has died in their custody in just 1 3/4 years. This does not include all the people they have murdered in the streets. It really is the Gestapo.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People are saying Pedro Sanchez might drive all the Landlords out of Spain with his rent freezes. Oh no! What will they do then? Live in affordable houses without being ripped off. So terrible.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UK spends more money on Tax Cuts for Private Pensions, 80% of which goes to millionaires, than it spends on the State Pension. If you want to punish the rich pensioners and save the most money you cut the one that is almost all going to millionaires.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man City's 'sponsors' are attempting to sue the Premier League. There is only one punishment that matters for Man City their owners must be forced to sell the club. Otherwise they effectively own the entire Premier League and can do whatever they like. There is no other choice
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What an incredible coincidence, Netanyahu warns of a terrorist attack, and less than 24 hours later one happens.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon is planning to give Donald Trump quicker and easier access to using Nuclear Weapons. What stupid shit is this, it's like the final announcement before the end of world. Fucking morons.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We're here today to say... war criminals are not welcome in this city &.. this is bigger than just Netanyahu. This is about the fact that our govt has been funding and enabling genocide & apartheid & it has to stop" Beth Miller from Jewish Voice for Peace in New York yesterday.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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